- Katharine Heigl needs to take the advice she gave third-person-style to Isaiah Washington back when he was shooting his mouth off and "just not talk in public. Period." First she ragged on "Knocked Up" and said it was sexist and portrayed women as shrews and men as loveable goofs. I want to know what movie she watched, because that's not at all what I saw in that movie - I saw a bunch of imperfect but overall good people, and the exploitation of funny but believable situations that their imperfections got them into. Hopefully Judd Apatow and Co. have the sense not to work with her again. Then today I see that she removed herself from Emmy nomination because she felt that the Grey's Anatomy writers hadn't given her Emmy-quality material to put forth an Emmy-quality performance. I'll agree that this season overall sucked and her character reached new depths of annoyingness in the fall, but if you don't think your performance was Emmy-worthy, fine, just say that. Don't go blaming the writers! Shame on you!
- United is now charging to check a single bag. It's a good thing I'm not going anywhere that requires air travel this year.
- I watched The Other Boleyn Girl last night. Dis. A. Ppointed. It reminded me of Titanic in that it seemed the filmmakers were far more interested in setting than substance. The set designers and constumers deserve Academy Awards - the realism was astounding and expert. But do you remember how bad the script was for Titanic? It was only slightly better for The Other Boleyn Girl. Scarlett and Natalie did what they could, and Eric Bana turned in a surprisingly strong and dynamic performance. But it all fell flat to me. Furthermore, it was as though the scriptwriter neither read the book nor even consulted with Philippa Gregory. In the book, Mary was the middle child; in the movie she was the youngest. In the book, Mary's first child by Henry is a girl; in the movie, it's a boy. In the book, George's homosexuality was evident; in the movie, they skimmed it so lightly it was imperceptible. In the book, Anne was a viper from the start and living at the French court where she learned charm, manipulation, intrigue, and court life; in the beginning of the movie, she and Mary are BFF and living in England, and Anne is only sent to France for a few months as punishment. Sloppy, sloppy job. The book was fluff but historical fluff and handily written. I had such high hopes - it would have been a cakewalk to make this movie a real thing of beauty. And it was in terms of the scenery and costumes. But the script was a landfill in the middle of parkland.
- Ask Amy is showing her bitchy colors. In today's article, she had three letters. The first was legitimate: shy college freshman made friends in the first week who have progressively gotten into drugs and drinking and the writer wants to abstain but doesn't enjoy hanging out with his new friends while they're high; what can he say to his friends to get them to lay off the dangerous substance (Amy's Answer: very little, make new friends). The second one was silly and characteristic of the charged topic that any celebration has become: writer's neighbor sent graduation party invitations for their daughter with whom writer has had very very little contact in the 13 years they lived there; neighbor is obviously grubbing for gifts and writer isn't going but if writer sends a card will that set precedent for writer to receive yet more invitations of the sort.... (Amy's Answer: get a grip, send a card with a regretful decline and best wishes and stop overthinking). Third letter pissed me off: a hateful tirade framed in the guise of a question as to why women have not stamped out the awful concept of fathers giving their daughters away at weddings like they're property to be disposed of and why aren't we all walking ourselves down the aisle (Amy's answer: Amen sister.) Screw you both. I dare you to find one woman outside of scary cults who honestly believes this practice has anything to do with property anymore. It's a sentimental thing, it's a traditional thing, it's an honor thing, it's a compromise thing (we want to walk ourselves but are afraid we'll hurt our Dad's feelings if he doesn't get to walk his little girl down the aisle). Some brides have their mothers give them away to honor their mother as the person who raised them. Some brides have siblings do it, or friends, or no one. And that's all fine. Weddings are all interpretive now anyway. So Amy, how about offering perspective, or a gentle wait-a-minute to your "advice seeker." And Feminazi, stuff your dogma and actually ask someone why they're doing what they're doing before you go assuming you know their motivations.
- Candy has calories. I think it's fair that that pisses me off.
- Some Marines got expelled and punished for what Drudge Report describes only as "puppy video." I have no idea what the video is or is about, and I refuse to open the link because my imagination can carry me far enough to assume that whatever it was they did to a puppy had to be bad or they wouldn't have gotten in trouble for it. And to that I say, there isn't a circle of Hell severe enough for those people, but I hope Satan gets on that real soon.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
A Smattering for Thursday
I'm feeling very scattered today and there are a fair number of things to piss me off in the world, but I'm not committed enough to choose just one and go with it. So I'll spread the love around.
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